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• Breaking: Bill restricting late-term abortions passes SA upper house

  17-06-2026 10:39 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's upper house has passed a bill to restrict access to abortions past 25 weeks. The legislation passed 10 votes to 9 with the support of three newly-elected One Nation MPs.
  
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• Best of cartoons, June 18, 2026

  17-06-2026 13:10 via smh.com.au
  
  The news of the day as interpreted by our talented artists, illustrators and cartoonists.
  
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• One Nation prepared to cut worker entitlements to shore up struggling small businesses

  17-06-2026 12:05 via abc.net.au
  
  One Nation's newly named "treasury spokesman" Barnaby Joyce says the party is prepared to cut worker entitlements to safeguard small businesses struggling to deal with inflation and high power prices.
  
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• Brisbane's Lang Park to undergo largest upgrade in 23 years

  17-06-2026 11:53 via abc.net.au
  
  The LNP government has announced plans for the largest upgrade to Lang Park in 23 years, featuring greater capacity, wraparound screens, and new entertainment zones ahead of next week's budget.
  
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• ‘We must be monocultural’: Hanson demands end to multiculturalism, calls climate change a hoax

  17-06-2026 11:34 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader described four of Australia’s closest allied nations as “absolute s-holes” because of their immigration and crime issues.
  
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• GetUp! stunt at Hanson speech referred to police as One Nation says leader’s safety compromised

  17-06-2026 11:05 via smh.com.au
  
  The National Press Club has referred footage to the AFP after a banner unfurled behind Pauline Hanson during her speech.
  
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• Before we build a statue of Elon Musk, let’s consider what he’s done with his trillions of dollars

  17-06-2026 11:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Elon Musk is the world’s first trillionaire. But 150 years ago, a man in Sydney showed what true wealth is about.
  
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• Pauline Hanson spoke for an hour and a half. Here’s the verdict of the press gallery experts

  17-06-2026 10:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader’s speech was temporarily disrupted by a banner slamming her opposition to wage rises. Here’s everything else you need to know.
  
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• Breaking: Bill restricting late-term abortions fails to pass SA lower house

  17-06-2026 10:39 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's lower house has voted against a bill to restrict access to abortions past 25 weeks. The legislation was defeated 36 votes to 9. 
  
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• Bill restricting late-term abortions passes SA upper house

  17-06-2026 10:39 via abc.net.au
  
  South Australia's upper house has passed a bill to restrict access to abortions past 25 weeks. The legislation passed 10 votes to 9 with the support of three newly-elected One Nation MPs.
  
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• GetUp stunt at Hanson speech referred to police as One Nation says leader’s safety compromised

  17-06-2026 09:53 via smh.com.au
  
  The National Press Club has referred footage to the AFP after a banner unfurled behind Pauline Hanson during her speech.
  
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• GetUp stunt at Hanson speech referred to police as One Nation says leader safety compromised

  17-06-2026 09:53 via smh.com.au
  
  The National Press Club has referred the footage to the federal police after a banner unfurled behind Pauline Hanson during her speech.
  
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• Is naming-and-shaming shops allegedly selling illegal vapes, smokes working?

  17-06-2026 09:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Authorities say a recent two-week compliance blitz results in them seizing $11 million of illegal product like cigarettes and vapes, but how much is it disrupting the lucrative industry?
  
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• Hanson pledges to end multiculturalism as police investigate GetUp stunt

  17-06-2026 09:27 via abc.net.au
  
  A banner interrupted the senator’s first address at the National Press Club in 30 years, in which she laid out a vision for an Australian "monoculture". 
  
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• She wasn’t slick, but Hanson’s formidable Press Club performance proved her enemies wrong

  17-06-2026 08:28 via smh.com.au
  
  Hanson’s strategy is not really to persuade the mainstream any more, it is to bypass it.
  
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• This generation now owns almost a third of all rental properties

  17-06-2026 07:51 via smh.com.au
  
  Fresh figures from the ATO also show a spike in younger “rentvestors” hoping to build their wealth through the property market.
  
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• Six years after daughter's death, mother still waiting for mental health reforms

  17-06-2026 07:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The mother of Kate Savage, whose death at 13 sparked a review of mental health supports for children, says she's lost faith promises of reform will ever be kept.
  
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• 'No credible plan' for mental health overhaul promised after teenagers death

  17-06-2026 07:37 via abc.net.au
  
  Improvements in mental health supports for Western Australian children and adolescents — prompted by the suicide of 13-year-old Kate Savage — risk never being delivered, the state's auditor-general is warning.
  
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• 13-year-old's death prompted promises of reform. Her mother says little has changed

  17-06-2026 07:37 via abc.net.au
  
  The mother of Kate Savage, whose death at 13 sparked a review of mental health supports for children, says she's lost faith promises of reform will ever be kept.
  
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• Ten key moments from Pauline Hanson’s first press club appearance

  17-06-2026 07:32 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader’s speech was temporarily disrupted by a banner slamming her opposition to wage rises. Here’s everything else you need to know.
  
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• Pauline Hanson makes her views clear on abortion

  17-06-2026 06:35 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader said there were "too many abortions in this country" and would prefer to educate about the use of contraception.
  
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• Pauline Hanson fires up when quizzed about her daughter

  17-06-2026 06:08 via smh.com.au
  
  The One Nation leader has gone on the offensive when questioned whether she helped her daughter get a job with a Tasmanian One Nation senator.
  
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• Pauline Hanson gets emotional during National Press Club speech

  17-06-2026 05:43 via smh.com.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson became emotional while talking about children going to school hungry and families going without meals in a speech to the National Press Club.
  
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• Pauline Hanson gets emotional during speech

  17-06-2026 05:26 via smh.com.au
  
  One Nation leader Pauline Hanson became emotional while talking about children going to school hungry and families going without meals in a speech to the National Press Club.
  
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• Pauline Hanson's Press Club address interrupted by protest banner

  17-06-2026 05:02 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline Hanson’s Press Club address has been interrupted after a banner appeared to unfurl behind the One Nation leader reading, "I opposed a pay rise for workers, while I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself".
  
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• ‘Globalist parasites’: One Nation senator accused of using ‘antisemitic trope’

  17-06-2026 04:35 via smh.com.au
  
  Senator Malcolm Roberts’ attack on the US military is at odds with the defence policies of his party’s leader, Pauline Hanson.
  
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• MP joins conservative Family First party ahead of abortion bill debate

  17-06-2026 04:05 via abc.net.au
  
  SA upper house MP Sarah Game has abandoned the political party she founded to join the conservative Family First brand, marking the third time she has changed parties in less than two years.
  
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• Live: PM questions One Nation's policy positions ahead of Hanson's press club address

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Anthony Albanese has questioned One Nation's policy positions on the minimum wage and workers' rights ahead of Pauline Hanson's address to the National Press Club today. Follow live. 
  
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• Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline Hanson's first National Press Club address has been interrupted by protest banner. Follow live.
  
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• Live: Pauline Hanson to address National Press Club for first time

  16-06-2026 23:03 via abc.net.au
  
  Pauline Hanson will speak at the National Press Club for the first time since her entrance to politics in 1996. Follow live.
  
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